Thank you, Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review! I will admit I had a harder time getting into this book and I think that was because I had gotten so invested in Paxton’s life that now moving to Harmony was difficult. However, I quite enjoyed it! I was happy to follow on Harmony’s journey and how the actions of the past coincide with her future. As always (in my opinion) any plot that includes time twits can be difficult to follow but the author did a wonderful job in both books keeping the info clear. This was an excellent duology.

DNF @ 33%/through Chapter 10

I hate doing this to ARCs but I just couldn't get into this book. I was never able to really follow what was going on in the plot, I didn't understand the different factions, and I wasn't a big fan of the POV shift from the first book. I spent a good chunk of February trying to make myself power through it, but I just have to admit that I don't think I'm the right audience for the direction this sequel went in.

This was a great sequel in the Android band series, It had a great overall feel and I could see how it working with the first book of the series. The character is felt like the same people and that the world still had that great scifi feel that I was looking for. It had everything that I was looking for from a sequel and from the scifi elements. Dwain Worrell has a great writing style and I can't wait to read more.

Thanks to 47North and NetGalley for this ARC of Dwain Worrel's 'Alliance.'

I'd bought and read Androne, the first book in the duology, last year and enjoyed it so I was delighted to see the sequel available for review on NetGalley. On finishing Androne, it was clear that there could be a sequel coming but no obvious path that might take.

Worrell does a great job with it. Amazing imagination in play as well as very engaging writing. He takes a couple of the key characters from the first novel and interlinks them again and we follow their journey through to the end. He creates a future where 21st century corporate logos are the banners under which the various religious factions congregate in this unspecified future and - given the current descent into Christian nationalism in the US it is very believable what might happen (though these are all 'new' religions). Cleverly, we see the very beginnings of one of the main religions in the near future strand of the book. The future battles are intense and believable. There's a touch of the Ender's Game in this one but I won't spoil that strand.

I would be lying if I said I followed 100% of the time shifting narrative or that there didn't appear to be some holes in the logic but I didn't care - this was a very enjoyable book, a fitting sequel to the equally enjoyable original.